Is there a standard procedure for assessing and providing assistive devices for people with neuro-disabling conditions in United Kingdom? A nation-wide survey

Triccas, Lisa Tedesco; McLening, B.; Hendrie, W.; Peryer, Guy

doi:10.1016/j.dhjo.2018.08.003

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“…To this end, a considerable time and effort is needed by an interdisciplinary team that includes many trials with different variables of SIT setup. On the contrary, assistive technology professionals require a benchmark application [9], which is compatible with most SITs, to make a better comparison and evaluation automatically with standardized tests under the same conditions. Considering the increasing number of SIT users, any tool that allows a more accurate and quicker SIT evaluation process becomes an important requirement day by day.…”

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SITbench 1.0: A Novel Switch-Based Interaction Technique Benchmark

Esiyok

Albayrak

2019

Journal of Healthcare Engineering

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Evaluation process of a switch-based interaction technique (SIT) requires an interdisciplinary team effort and takes a considerable amount of time. Collecting subjective evaluation data from the users is a very common approach, but the subjective evaluation data alone might be manipulated and unreliable for comparing performances in many cases. Thus, therapists generally cannot succeed in determining the optimum SIT setup (i.e., determining the most appropriate combination of setup variables such as the switch type or switch site) at first attempts since it is hard to evaluate the measurable performance by collecting subjective data instead of objective data. Inevitably, each unsuccessful attempt to reach the optimum SIT setup results in a loss of serious time and effort. On the contrary, a benchmark application is also required to make performance evaluation of SITs by using a number of standard tests and empirical attributes. It is obvious that a quicker and more accurate SIT evaluation process provides a better cost and schedule management considering the increasing number of SIT users in the world. Therefore, we propose a novel benchmark for performance evaluation called SITbench that provides a quicker and more accurate switch evaluation process by collecting and saving the objective data automatically. We conducted a user study with eight participants and demonstrated that the objective data collected via the SITbench helped to determine the optimum SIT setup accurately. Result of a questionnaire applied to evaluate the SITbench itself was also satisfactory. SITbench is expected to help researchers and therapists to make a better evaluation according to any change done in SIT setup variables (switch type, activation method, etc.) with the aim of reaching the optimum SIT setup, which leads to a better cost and schedule management. As the first benchmark application compatible with all SITs, which can emulate keyboard characters or mouse clicks, it can be utilized by assistive technology professionals to make comparisons and evaluations automatically via standardized tests.

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SITbench 1.0: A Novel Switch-Based Interaction Technique Benchmark

Esiyok

Albayrak

2019

Journal of Healthcare Engineering

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“…Acerca de questionamentos ainda presentes na literatura sobre atributos de adaptadores para o lápis que influenciam na percepção de satisfação com o dispositivo e com o desempenho na escrita, o presente estudo oferece indicativos para TO e educadores que favorecem a escolha de adaptadores para escolares que deles necessitem, incluindo o escolar na escolha do produto. Além disso, o acompanhamento do recurso de TA é fundamental para garantir que a intervenção seja adequada e não ocorra abandono (TRICCAS et al, 2019).…”

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Dispositivos assistivos para ferramenta de escrita manual:percepção de satisfação e de desempenho

Vasconcelos,

Zucco,

Ferrari

et al. 2023

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Objetivou-se verificar a influência de quatro modelos de dispositivos assistivos projetados para a preensão trípode em tarefa de escrita manual, analisando-se as variáveis satisfação com o dispositivo, satisfação na realização e no desempenho da atividade de escrita. Estudo transversal composto por trinta universitários, utilizando-se de dois instrumentos de coleta de dados, QUEST 2.0 e COPM. Os resultados indicaram satisfação com os adaptadores, bem como em sua utilização para a atividade de escrita. Este estudo contribui para terapeutas ocupacionais, educadores, design e a engenharia na elaboração de novos dispositivos e na indicação de adaptadores.

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“…The second element to which the reviews point is that a structured and systematic process conducted by professionals with experience in AT seems to be an important factor in an effective AT service delivery and in having satisfied users (Brandt et al, 2014(Brandt et al, , 2015(Brandt et al, , 2020Larsson Ranada and Lidström, 2019;Socialstyrelsen, 2015). Some studies have suggested that, if service delivery is to be evidence-based, it should rely on systematic and structured procedures that should be based on guidelines, instruments, or models (Bernd et al, 2009;Triccas et al, 2019). Within this field, models are understood as symbolic representations of concepts that support and guide the AT service delivery (Bernd et al, 2009).…”

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Occupational therapists’ perspectives on an evidence-based, client-centered assistive technology intervention

Larsen

Brandt

Hounsgaard

et al. 2023

British Journal of Occupational Therapy

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Introduction: Reviews within the field of assistive technology have shown that a client-centered approach is important for user satisfaction, and that assistive technology service delivery should be evidence-based, systematic, and structured. However, client-centered instruments and systematic, structured models are not used consistently. As part of a larger research project, an evidence-based, client-centered assistive technology service delivery process was developed and piloted. The purpose of this study was to investigate occupational therapists’ perspectives on this evidence-based, client-centered assistive technology intervention. Method: Ten occupational therapists, from two Danish municipalities, participated in focus groups. Data were analyzed based on a hermeneutic approach. Results: Three themes emerged from the analysis: a more refined collaboration with clients; advantages of using theoretical frameworks, structured models and instruments and challenges in using the intervention. Conclusion: By using the evidence-based, client-centered intervention, the occupational therapists found that the collaboration with the clients was refined—more emphasis was placed on shared responsibility. They found that the intervention was time-efficient in the long run; however, there seems to be a particular challenge in designing services that are inclusive of clients with cognitive limitations.

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Is there a standard procedure for assessing and providing assistive devices for people with neuro-disabling conditions in United Kingdom? A nation-wide survey

Cited by 15 publications

References 35 publications

SITbench 1.0: A Novel Switch-Based Interaction Technique Benchmark

SITbench 1.0: A Novel Switch-Based Interaction Technique Benchmark

Dispositivos assistivos para ferramenta de escrita manual:percepção de satisfação e de desempenho

Occupational therapists’ perspectives on an evidence-based, client-centered assistive technology intervention

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